Coming September 1 from Thomas & Mercer: Cold Island: A Novel (Detective Tommy Kelly) by Peter Colt.
About the book, from the publisher:
When the remains of a young murder victim on Nantucket Island are discovered after thirty-five years, a detective begins to unearth the dark secrets of a community gone silent.Visit Peter Colt's website.
Massachusetts State Police detective Tommy Kelly is called to Nantucket Island, where a boy’s skeletal remains have been discovered at a construction site―interred for thirty-five years. The crime is especially gutting for Tommy, the father of two boys. It’s also the beginning of a grim mystery. Because no child during that period was even reported missing.
Tommy is partnered with Nantucket PD’s best detective, Jo Harris, who first chafes at the idea of a mainlander encroaching on her territory. And their work together is only raising more troubling questions. Then a possible link is found to the decades-old case of a serial killer―a vigilantly hidden part of the past that this tight-knit community would prefer to forget and never speak of again.
The secrets in their silence are so shocking they soon pull Tommy into a very dark place. Suddenly, offseason on Nantucket has never felt so cold, so isolating, or so dangerous.
My Book, The Movie: Back Bay Blues.
The Page 69 Test: Back Bay Blues.
Q&A with Peter Colt.
The Page 69 Test: Death at Fort Devens.
My Book, The Movie: Death at Fort Devens.
Writers Read: Peter Colt (June 2022).
My Book, The Movie: The Ambassador.
The Page 69 Test: The Ambassador.
The Page 69 Test: The Judge.
My Book, The Movie: The Judge.
Writers Read: Peter Colt (May 2024).
Writers Read: Peter Colt (March 2025).
My Book, The Movie: The Banker.
The Page 69 Test: The Banker.
--Marshal Zeringue
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